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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department and election officials told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that election workers face increased threats ahead of the midterm elections, as Congress considers additional election protections.

Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics.

In a brick-walled studio in Brooklyn a higher yoga experience “Bend & Blaze” invites participants to smoke marijuana during the ‘inhale and exhale’ 420 sessions.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Since Friday, Emily Osborn hasn’t been able to go into her backyard, let alone look at the forest of trees that peer over her back fence.

RALEIGH, N.C. — A 23-year-old man who “exited” a plane Friday afternoon before it made an emergency landing at Raleigh-Durham International Airport was found dead around 7 p.m. Friday in Fuquay-Varina, authorities said.

HILLBOROUGH, N.C. — The charge Paolo Banchero faced from his involvement in a Duke basketball teammate’s drunk driving arrest last November has been dropped.

Senate Republicans are backing bills that would instruct retirement plan advisers to use financial measures to choose investments.

From today's decision in Garnier v. O'Connor-Ratcliff, written by Judge Marsha Berzon and joined by Judges Richard Tallman and Michelle Friedland: Today, social media websites like Facebook and Twitter are, for many, "the principal sources for knowing current events, checking ads for employment, speaking and listening in the modern public…

House Financial Services ranking Republican Patrick T. McHenry raised about $940,000 in campaign donations in the weeks leading up to and months after setting his sights on the panel chairmanship.

House Financial Services ranking member Patrick T. McHenry, a likely chair if Republicans retake the House, is racking up donations.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Changes throughout college athletics, amplifying the importance of revenue driven largely from football, only served to further drive home the point that Duke football needed major changes.